It's more anecdote/speculation on my part than fact but I noticed many (most?) families would vote as a block on historic lines. So, if your mother and father were left, everyone in the family would always vote left (regardless of candidate/current manifesto), likewise for right leaning families.

What I love about Macron is his unashamed centerist approach. It's new in France and I hope he has ushered in a new dimension to French politics that sticks and makes it more normal for people to vote for different parties each time based on what a manifesto actually says and who's running for elected office.

Macron reminds me a little of 1997 in the UK and Tony Blair. Let's hope he avoids turning in to a war criminal in a few years time... :)

Yeah there's a lot of left leaning kids being caught in the student unions (unef & co). Those are propped up by the "real world" unions who are in turn very close to the different political parties.

The thing is, those left leaning student bodies are the only ones to have credible presence in most universities due to the amount of support they garner to push their communications and frankly the incompetence of the right leaning student orgs.

It's a bit of a self perpetuating cycle where the right leaning folks don't have as much support structure to coordinate because of how everyone (themselves included) see the right.